“It’s a beautiful thing that for the first time in history you can see a saint dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sweatshirt. That’s a great message,” Father Carlos Acácio Gonçalves Ferreira, the shrine’s rector, said at the time. A Franciscan monk based at the tomb, noted that “many young people” were visiting.
Now get rid of the homophobia, sex abuse scandals, sexism, and anti-choice bullshit, mmkay?
Yeah but doesnt that sound like a system rife with holes? What happens if I pray to my dead dog Snickers and get 3 miracles? Is she a saint? Maybe its just culture shock